Ruggles v. Dandison’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““In King v. Battle Creek Box Co., 235 Mich. 24, 35 , the court said: “ ‘Peaceable occupation or use by acquiescence or permission of tbe owner cannot ripen into title by adverse possession, no matter bow long maintained. Hostility is of the very essence of adverse possession. 1 E. C. L. pp. 701-705. “ ‘ “All of tbe authorities agree that the adverse possession must have been for the whole period prescribed by the statute, actual, open, visible, notorious, continuous and hostile." Bean v. Bean, 163 Mich. 379, 396 .’ ””

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